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The Franchise Recap: China Syndrome
Watching Eric unravel over product placement is the most fun The Franchise has had since the pilot.
But meeting it on its wavelength — which is to say, to accept that Tecto exists in a world where movie studios are so wilfully negligent and self-destructive as to torpedo their own films out of petty revenge … well, maybe that isn’t so hard to believe — it’s probably the most fun The Franchise has been since the pilot. Not because China is catching strays — I have no interest in wading into testy geopolitical waters, nor myself having to enlist a PR team to apologise on my behalf to the Chinese government — but because it represents, once again, just how deleterious an effect this whole Tecto thing is having on Eric’s psyche, which manifests in another deranged, aimless rant. • On which subject: I wasn’t a huge fan of the faecal transplant stuff, although I did enjoy the way Lolly Adefope played Dag’s descent into panic as she thinks that Shitgate has caused a scandal in the trades.
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